Chapter 104

Silvia "Charlotte." The location reveal had felt like some cosmic joke. Here's your dream opportunity! Three hours away from your critically ill brother!Enjoy! The city name glared at me from my acceptance email, just below the sleek, silver Legacy logo — the headquarters of the music empire I'd idolized since I was a teenager, hunched over our battered piano in the tiny living room. My hands actually shook as I read the location again, hoping maybe I'd misread it. "Holy shit," I whispered, caught between wanting to scream with joy and curl up in a ball. "This is it!" Keal practically howled inside me. "The big break we've been killing ourselves for!" I should have been over the moon. Years of practice until my fingers cramped, nights spent composing when I should have been sleeping, all validated in one email. Then reality hit me like a bucket of ice water. Three hours each way. Six hours of driving daily on top of what would surely be an exhausting internship schedule. My already tir